I met my best friend in 2008. He came at just the right time to assist me in navigating college and the start of my career, and you couldn't ask for a more loving loyal companion ( Read more... )

Mrs. Jones' alarm clock rings at 6am. Not that she really needs it. She just figures if she doesn't keep some degree of a routine, she will lose her mind completely. She doesn't have anywhere to go now that she has been laid off from her job as a middle school teacher for six months. School budgets, which have been cut every year for generations, ( Read more... )

I am a 26-year-old woman living in the midwest, and a former LJ Idol contestant. I last competed in 2011. I dreamed of being a writer of some sort, and still do, but haven't figured out a way to write that also pays the bills, so I earned a paralegal certificate, and now work as a case manager in a law firm. I am also usually tired and uninspired ( Read more... )

I was a regular blogger here until 2011, when I decided to switch to Wordpress, but I haven't written there either since 2013. In these past years, so much has changed in my life. I went from a slightly immature college student, to a full-time employee at a law firm where I am now a case manager. I still dream of being a writer, but just don't feel ( Read more... )

Hello everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the holiday preparations and that you all have a Merry Christmas. I know it's been over a year since I posted here. That's because I decided to blog at a new address. It's nothing against LiveJournal. I just liked some of the more accessible features on Wordpress. I made this announcement to friends a while ( Read more... )

"I'll never forget our very first Thanksgiving turkey after we were married," Mom said through tears of hysterical laughter. "The turkey was beautiful and ready to come out of the oven, but somehow when we lifted it up, it fell off the pan and bounced. There was a loud THUNK as it bounced off the door of the oven and rolled across the floor. Some ( Read more... )

It was a very cold, rainy, dreary Saturday morning, the kind of day when I'm glad I only have to go outside the couple minutes it takes for me to do my business in the grass. When Mom brings me back in and I shake the water off myself and wag my tail, I already feel as if I have put in a whole day's work and have earned a day where my only ( Read more... )

Last week, Mom and I were shopping at Target when we saw Halloween candy on display and decided it was time to stock the big wooden salad bowl, just in case we get trick-or-treaters. But last year, we only had a couple trick-or-treaters and the year before, the pumpkin lit with a candle was outside the door, the porch lights on, "The Monster Mash" ( Read more... )

This proverb reminded me of a joke I heard a long time ago. I don't remember it word for word, but the premise was something like this ( Read more... )

Shepherdsville, WI. School administrators at Clifford University are investigating student complaints regarding perceived preferential treatment of a blind student by professors. The student, Allison Nastoff, is a senior pursuing a bachelor's degree in Journalism and a politics minor ( Read more... )